Rabaul, Papua New Guinea News

Toms River residents Willy and Karin Goedeke cruised from Los Angeles to Singapore, calling in to see the Rabaul volcano in Papua, New Guinea, along the way.

It was a lucky find in the Australian War Memorial bookshop in Canberra that sparked a trek to Papua New Guinea for the son of a war veteran.

The log of the submarinea s captain, Lieutenant Commander WL Wright, tells the story: a oePut on all engines and worked up to full power, proceeding to westward in attempt to get ahead of him.

Shadow Minister for Veterans' Affairs LOUISE MARKUS MP has marked todaya s memorial ceremony at Subic Bay by calling on the Federal government to fund a search for the Montevideo Maru The unveiling of a new plaque to commemorate Australian prisoners of war and civilians lost when the Montevideo Maru sank after being torpedoed off the Philippines in ...

The hardest thing for families who lost relatives in the sinking of the Montevideo Maru during World War II was not knowing the fate of their loved ones.

The Minister for Veterans Affairs, Alan Griffin MP, and the Shadow Minister, Louise Markus MP, yesterday afternoon gave speeches to the House of Representatives marking the 67th anniversary of the sinking of the Montevideo Maru .

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Andrea Williams remembers growing up on an idyllic island in Papua New Guinea. Little did she know that her family would be tangled up in the mystery of what happened to the men who were killed in Australia's worst maritime disaster.

A notice in the post reminds me that elections for the Papua New Guinea Association are due at the end of next month, with postal voting to occur before that.

Former Labor leader Kim Beazley has joined a group of relatives urging the federal government to launch a search for the wreck of Australia's worst maritime tragedy.

PLAYLIST FOR WEDNESDAY APRIL 29, 2009 THE ABORIGINAL SOUNDS OF OCEANIA 10 AM - " NOON HOST: YATRIKA SHAH-RAIS E-MAIL: yatrikashahrais@gmail.com Artist / Album/ Track/ Label 10:00 - " 11:00 AM 1- Wantok Musik Foundation compilation / "Oro" by Mapoo Gela & David Bridie/ Wantok Musik FoundationA www.wantokmusik.org 2- Ankala / Rhythms From The Outer ...

Australian deaths on the notorious Kokoda Track has prompted tour operators to suggest easier, but just as significant, World War II pilgrimages in Papua New Guinea.

I think back to the map that shows what is often described as the old land bridge between Papua New Guinea and Australia and across which homo sapiens is said to have first arrived on what is now the Australian continent in numbers, possibly about 47,000 years ago.

Calm seas, warm weather, a beguiling rainforest coast, islands and atolls make for picturesque cruising.

A plaque to commemorate the sinking of the Montevideo Maru will be unveiled at a ceremony at Subic Bay in the Philippines on Wednesday 1 July.

As twins, Harry and Harris John had a special bond. Growing up in Crowley, they sometimes got into a spot of trouble together.

Nipawin resident Iniez Radloff in the Nipawin Journal/Northeast Sun offices last week, with a picture of her daughter Shirley Grote and son in law Frank Grote, on a worldwide cruise.

Almost 65 years after they died when their 31 Squadron fighter bomber was shot down, the remaining body parts of three New Zealand airmen have been reunited in their graves.

Mido has stood at 144 Military Road, Neutral Bay, for 46 years - " but had never witnessed a scene like this.

PORT MORESBY a ' Air Niugini and PNG Airports Limited are arranging routine cleanup operations to remove volcanic ash fall from the Tokua Airport runway and aircraft parking bay over the next few days.